UW-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) and Data Science Institute (DSI) are hosting an all-day symposium on AI in Imaging and Medicine: Breaking Silos, Building Bridges on Friday, October 6 at the Carson Gulley Center.
News and announcements
Emily Bender Will Speak on the Risks and Use of Large Language Models
In a public lecture at the Discovery Building’s DeLuca Forum on September 14, 3 p.m., Dr. Bender will provide an overview of how language models work, discuss risks associated with them, and explore what must hold for an appropriate use case for text synthesis.
The Data Science Institute is hiring a program manager for a new Open Source Program Office
The OSPO will grow a culture of open research and provide support for open practices both on the UW-Madison campus and within the Madison area. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the OSPO and lay the groundwork for a unique campus organization that directly benefits society.
Data Science Institute to establish campus Open Source Program Office
The UW–Madison Data Science Institute will establish an Open Source Program Office (OSPO) on campus, in partnership with Madison College, the Data Science Hub, the UW–Madison Libraries and UW–Madison Extension. This new office will accelerate the translation of academic research to society by providing opportunities to learn about, develop and share open-source software, hardware, data, models and more.
Summer seminar series explores AI at UW–Madison
This summer, the UW–Madison Division of Information Technology and Data Science Institute are presenting an artificial-intelligence (AI) webinar series tailored specifically for UW–Madison.
Ten projects awarded funding through UW research partnership with American Family Insurance
The UW–Madison Data Science Institute (DSI), powered by American Family Insurance, announced ten research projects selected for funding through a unique sponsored research partnership.
Data Science Hub announces 2022 Impact Report
In 2022, the Data Science Hub hosted 12 workshops, trained 8 new Carpentries instructors, and had 315 workshop attendees, 107 drop-in consultations at Coding Meetup, and 286 attendees at the yearly Research Bazaar conference.
Spring 2023 commencement: Celebrating 7 graduates from the School of Computing, Data, and Information Sciences
With graduation celebrations underway this week, seven notable School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences graduates share their next chapters, relive favorite moments, and dispense some words of wisdom on what they’ve learned and how they’ve grown.
Groundbreaking: CDIS building to foster high-tech innovation, collaboration
When it is completed, the building will house CDIS — which includes the Information School and the departments of Computer Sciences and Statistics — the UW School of Medicine and Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, the American Family Insurance Data Science Institute, the N+1 Institute and the Center for High Throughput Computing.
Data Science Institute welcomes first cohort of affiliates
The American Family Insurance Data Science Institute (DSI) is honored to announce its inaugural cohort of faculty and academic staff affiliates representing colleges, schools and departments across the UW–Madison campus.